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The Supermax Debate: Do Supermaximum-Security Prisons Violate Human Rights?

Jamey Dunn-Thomason

Gray, bleak and desensitizing. Hope-draining and soul-crushing. That is how some who have entered the walls of the state’s super-maximum-security prison…